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-51 degrees Fahrenheit A email Thursday, January 31, 2019 By Oliver Roeder You're reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. -51 degrees Fahrenheit It was very cold in parts of the country yesterday thanks to "one of the coldest arctic air mass intrusions in recent memory," per the National Weather Service. It felt like 51 degrees below zero in Chicago. In Minneapolis, it felt like 49 below, threatening to break a 100-year-old temperature record which, for them, is really saying something. And it was so cold in Chicago ( How cold was it? ) that they were setting railroad tracks on fire . [ USA Today ] 36,000 pounds of chicken nuggets Tyson Foods recalled 36,000 pounds of chicken nuggets because they may be contaminated with rubber. Customers had complained about "extraneous material" in Tyson White Meat Panko Chicken Nuggets. That material was "soft, blue rubber," accord...

Skimm'd after getting our tax season calendar JANUARY 31, 2019 READ IN BROWSER Skimm'd after getting our tax season calendar   QUOTE OF THE DAY   "Small charcoal grill" – What Ariana Grande's new tattoo in Japanese translates to. Yes, it's a mistake. FROZEN The Story Tens of millions of Americans are experiencing a polar vortex . I'm not a meteorologist. What's a polar vortex? Freezing cold air that usually sits on top of the North Pole. Except sometimes it migrates south. Which is what happened earlier this week, causing t...

Presented by Bank of America:   View in browser   Presented By Bank of America   Axios AM By Mike Allen · Jan 31, 2019 ☕ Good Thursday morning. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here .     1 big thing: Reining in "deepfakes" Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios   Deepfakes — digitally forged videos that can be impossible to detect — are the sudden target of legislation in Congress and several states, Axios' Kaveh Wadell reports from Silicon Valley. Why it matters: AI-altered videos and audio have been called the end of truth, a threat to democracy and a potential disruption to society. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) told Axios: "Deepfakes — video of things that were never done with audio of things that were never said — can be tailor-made to drive Americans apart and pour gas...